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| 24 Month Postdoc in CA/IL from October, 1st 2021 in Lyon (France) + | * Postdoc in CA/IL from October, 1st 2021 in Lyon (France) * 24 month * Subject: Turn-taking practices in human-robot-interaction * Partners: ICAR research lab & LIRIS research lab (France), GenZ Oulu (Finland) * Requirements: Master / experiences in CA/IL * Languages: French (working on French data), English * More information here: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR5191-MAXPEN-006/Default.aspx?lang=EN * Contact: heike.baldaufquilliatre@ens-lyon.fr + |
| 2nd Conversation as a tool for professional practice-symposium 2017 + | Conversation as a tool for professional practice – An interdisciplinary CA-symposium on interaction and learning Call for registration and abstracts University College of Southeast Norway wishes you warmly welcome to the second interdisciplinary CA-symposium “Conversation as a tool for professional practice” – a one-day meeting comprising a series of 30-minute paper presentations. This year, the symposium is on interaction and learning. Deadline for registration: 1st March 2017 Deadline for abstracts: 15th February 2017 Price: 1000 NOK (includes lunch) Submit abstracts (200-300 words) for short presentations (15 minutes) to Associate : https://www.usn.no/about-usn/contact-us/employees/karianne-skovholt-article197304-7531.html Professor Karianne Skovholt. Register for symposium.: https://events.provisoevent.no/hsn/events/ca-symposium-learning-and-interaction/register Invited Speakers Presenters at the CA symposium include: * Elizabeth Stokoe (Professor in social interaction, Loughborough University, UK) * Åsa Mäkitalo (Professor in Education, Gothenburg University): http://lincs.gu.se/members/asa_makitalo * Helen Melander (Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy, Uppsala University: http://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N2-557 * Fritjof Sahlström (Professor in Pedagogy, University of Helsinki): https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/sv/persons/fritjof-sahlstroem%282658dc0e-b1b6-4ca3-a543-0d990e20495c%29.html Program Download preliminary program : https://www.usn.no/getfile.php/13448923/usn.no/filer/aktuelt/Aktiviteter/Conversation%20as%20a%20tool%20for%20professional%20practice.pdf The symposium is connected to the PhD-course. See information about the PhD-course here. : https://www.usn.no/research/postgraduate-studies-phd/our-phd-programmes/pedagogical-resources-and-learning-processes/courses/interaction-analysis-and-conversation-analysis-as-approaches-to-interaction-and-learning-in-kindergarten-school-and-higher-education-article202771-29582.html Date: 20. April 2017 Time: All day Registration deadline: 2017-03-01 Vestfold + |
| 2yr Postdoctoral Associate at SUNY Buffalo + | Classification Title: Postdoctoral Associate In-House Title: Assistant to Project Director FLSA: Exempt FTE: 1 Position Summary: Work closely with PI on Engelke Family Foundation funded project to research the talk-in-interactions of individuals with complex communication needs (e.g., ALS, CP, IDD) and collaborate on the design Augmentative Communication Technologies (ACTs) that reduce the temporal-sequential problems associated with their use. The trainee will engage in fieldwork, collect and analyze social interaction videos, research the literature in conversation analysis for potential interaction-based solutions, and collaborate on new ACT designs. The trainee will also assist in training student researchers and other collaborators in microanalysis and conversation analysis. Minimum Qualifications (Position): PhD in social sciences or communicative disorders Preferred Qualifications: A strong disciplinary background in conversation analysis, micro-ethnography and/or talk-in-interaction research. Previous fieldwork experience researching and/or working with individuals with disabilities preferred. Previous work related to technology / assistive technology design is desirable.The candidate must have excellent written and verbal skills. Description of Job Duty: Work closely with the PI on Project Converse, investigating the interaction problems faced by individuals with disabilities and their partners using ACTs. The trainee will assist with participant recruitment, data collection and the analysis of a large collection of video data. The trainee will also be responsible for researching the current literature in talk-in-interaction for ways to re-engineer ACTs to be more conversant and pragmatically effective in face-to-face interaction contexts. Finally the trainee will collaborate with other researchers and engineers on related ACT design projects. Percent of Time: 100% Salary Range: 50 - 55k Duration of postdoc up to 2 years Supervisor: Jeff Higginbotham, Ph.D. Professor and Director Communication and Assistive Device Laboratory (CADL) Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences 122 Cary Hall (South Campus) University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14222 cdsjeff@buffalo.edu Higginbotham's google scholar profile Apply through https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/27322 Please include a statement of interest, CV and 2 references (name, phone, email). After applying, please email Dr. Higginbotham with your UBJobs account number. + |
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| 3 PhD and 1 post-doc position in a comparative CA project at IDS Mannheim + | The Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim (Germany) is offering the following positions, starting 1st July 2020, for a new multi-site project investigating social interaction across languages: 1 Research Associate (post-doc) position for three years (100%, fixed-term), job reference number 1/2020 and 3 Research Assistant positions for three years (65%, fixed-term), job reference number 2/2020 The appointment is for three years, with a salary according to the German public service scale grade TV-L 13 (Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst der Länder). The gross annual salary will be approximately 49,900 Euro based on 100% FTE. Job description Successful candidates will become members of an international and interdisciplinary research team examining rules and norms in informal social interaction on the basis of video data from five languages: Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Polish. We are looking for candidates who can work with data from at least one of those languages (at least two in the case of the Research Associate position). Successful candidates will be based at Mannheim, but will also spend extended periods of time working with project team members abroad (see below for details), recruiting participants and doing fieldwork. The project centrally employs the methods of multimodal Conversation Analysis, and combines qualitative with quantitative analysis. All members of the research team will contribute to the dissemination of results. The Research Associate will also be expected to contribute to the administration of the project, and to the coordination of the team work. Research Assistants are expected to pursue a PhD in connection with the project. Requirements We invite applications from candidates with interests in language diversity and social interaction, and with a strong motivation to pursue a scientific career. The successful applicant for the Research Associate position will * hold (or shortly expect to obtain) a PhD in linguistics or a related relevant social science; * have expertise in Conversation Analysis and/or Interactional Linguistics; * have very good proficiency in at least two of the languages examined in the project; * enjoy working as part of a team; * have experience in organising data collection and fieldwork; * be able to assist with project administration; * as well as have a good command of (academic) English. The successful appicants for the Research Assistant positions will * hold (or shortly expect to obtain) an M.A. in linguistics or a related relevant social science; * have knowledge of Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics, or a strong interest in becoming expert in these methodologies; * enjoy working as part of a team; * have very good proficiency in at least one of the languages examined in the project, as well as a good command of English. Employer The Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS) is a non-university institution dedicated to research on language. It belongs to the Leibniz Association, one of the four major non-university research organizations in Germany. The IDS provides a stimulating research environment, with excellent facilities and expertise supporting linguistic research based on corpora, and close links to the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. The successful candidates will become members of an interdisciplinary and international team of researchers led by Jörg Zinken (IDS Mannheim), together with Arnulf Deppermann (IDS Mannheim), Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel), Giovanni Rossi (University of California, Los Angeles), Marja-Leena Sorjonen (University of Helsinki), and Matylda Weidner (University of Bydgoszcz). Application Motivated candidates meeting the above criteria are invited to apply. Please send the following documents, citing the job reference number, in a single pdf file by e-mail to the director of the IDS, Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin (lobin@ids-mannheim.de): # a cover letter stating your interest in the position; # CV; # a scan of your latest academic certificates (PhD, M.A., B.A.); # a sample piece of academic writing (this can be a published article, or PhD or M.A. thesis). The deadline for applications is 10 April 2020. We are expecting to conduct interviews in the first half of May. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of their personal background. The IDS aims to increase the number of female researchers, and we therefore encourage women to apply. The IDS is a family-friendly employer. In cases of equal merit, preference will be given to applicants with a disability. In November 2019, the IDS was awarded the ‚Total E-Quality‘ grade for a fourth consecutive time, recognizing the effort we make in ensuring equal opportunities. For informal enquiries, please contact Jörg Zinken (zinken@ids-mannheim.de). + |
| 3 PhDs in Multimodal CA + | '''Deadline extended to Dec 20, 2024!''' The chair of Lorenza Mondada, at the Linguistics and Literature Department of the University of Basel, opens three positions for PhD candidates to be integrated as scientific assistants (100%) in a research project sponsored by the SNF. The positions start at the beginning of 2025 (1.4.2025 at latest) and are for 4 years. Rooted in multimodal Conversation Analysis, the project involves intensive fieldwork, video recordings in diverse settings and the constitution of data sets for a multimodal and multisensorial analysis contributing to the understanding of the organization of human interaction. The project pays special attention to embodied interactions in their ecology, to the specificity of the material environment and their consequentialities for the organization of social interaction. The project involves the PI, a post-doc and three PhD candidates. The PhD assistants will write a dissertation in multimodal conversation analysis within the project and they will be participating to the collective scientific tasks of the project, together with the members of the team (fieldwork in a diversity of social settings, realization of video data recordings, multimodal transcription, detailed analyses of video data, writing of collective articles; contribution to the organizational and logistic tasks of the project). The doctoral research assistants receive a salary conform to the SNF conditions for full PhD positions (100%, 4 years). '''Your profile''' * Completion of a MA in the field of linguistics. * Willingness to register as a PhD candidate in linguistics at the HPSL doctoral school of the University of Basel at the start of the contract. * Excellent results within the previous BA and MA studies. * If possible, already some training in interactional linguistics and multimodal conversation analysis, or high motivation to fully engage in being trained in this kind of research. * Capacity to work and write in English. Linguistic and analytic competences on German and French if possible. Other languages are welcome. * Capacity and pleasure to work in a team. '''We offer''' * Integration in a vibrant research group. * Excellent training in innovative research in multimodal conversation analysis. * Active participation to international conference and networks of scholars in conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and interactional linguistics. * Possibility of research stay abroad during the PhD. '''Deadline (extended!)''' December 20th, 2024. '''How to apply''' * Your application should include a letter of motivation, your Curriculum Vitae, a copy of your diploma (if you have it already), a copy of the MA thesis, and a letter of recommendation. * You will apply using the recruiting online tool of Basel University: https://career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=6036&company=UNIBAS You can ask information about the position, the project and the expected profile by contacting lorenza.mondada@unibas.ch. See also for general information: * https://franzoesistik.philhist.unibas.ch/fr/persons/lorenza-mondada/ * https://www.lorenzamondada.net/ + |
| 3rd Resistance Day 2018 + | The 3rd Resistance in talk-in-interaction day is happening on the 12th September, 2018 at Loughborough University. The day will be a mixture of data sessions and two invited speakers; Prof Ruth Parry & Dr Alexandra Kent to examine resistance in and as part of actions, sequences, and interactional activities. Please contact: j.joyce@lboro.ac.uk for more information or to attend. + |
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| 4 PhD fellowships in interactional linguistics/conversation analysis offered at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and at KU Leuven (Belgium) + | 4 PhD fellowships in interactional linguistics/conversation analysis are currently offered within the project "The first five words: Multilingual cities in Switzerland and Belgium and the grammar of language choice in public space" funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and directed by Elwys De Stefani (KU Leuven) and Lorenza Mondada (Univ. Basel). The positions are offered for 4 years and the salaries are those that generally apply in these two countries. + |
| 4 th International, Interdisciplinary Symposium: Microanalysis Of Online Data (MOOD-S) + | ONLINE DISCOURSE, TALK AND INTERACTION 4 th International, Interdisciplinary Symposium: Microanalysis Of Online Data (MOOD-S) Media City UK, University of Salford, UK The Microanalysis Of Online Data (MOOD) network is an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of online discourse and interaction. In particular, we are interested in developing novel methods that are tailored towards multimodal environments, including talk, text, images, sound and video + |
| 4 year Ph.D scholarship in Information, Interaction and Interpretation in Museums and Galleries, Kings College London 2019 + | Ph.D Studentship: King’s College London with the Royal Academy, London King’s Business School, Doctoral Programme, King’s College London We seek applications for a studentship to undertake a Ph.D at the King’s Business School, King’s College London, in close collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The project will examine how visitors use information provided by museums and galleries, for example through labels, gallery cards and electronic devices, in exploring, discussing and interpreting works of art. It will focus on the interaction of visitors and the ways in which resources provided by museums and galleries inform how people engage works of art and participate within exhibitions. Analysis will draw on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and the burgeoning corpus of research concerned with embodied or ‘multimodal’ interaction. Data for the project will consist of audio-visual recordings of ‘naturally occurring’ conduct and interaction within museums and galleries augmented by field studies, interviews of visitors, curators and designers, and textual analysis. The project will also involve undertaking a series of small-scale, ‘experiments’ in actual exhibitions in which we make systematic changes to the information provided to visitors. The project will contribute to contemporary developments in studies of social interaction and in particular our understanding of how the sense and significance of art arises in and through talk, embodied conduct and the use of material and digital resources. It will also contribute to practice, - how the particular resources provided by museums and galleries bear upon the ways in which people engage art and participate in exhibitions. The successful applicant will be supervised by Professor Christian Heath, Dr Dirk vom Lehn (King’s College London) and Dr Maurice Davies (Head of Collections) Royal Academy, London. Applicants should have a background in the social sciences, knowledge of qualitative methods and be familiar with Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. Experience of undertaking qualitative research, for example as part of a dissertation or thesis, would be a distinct advantage. The applicant will be expected to have an interest in art and museums and galleries. Depending on the qualifications of the successful applicant, the studentship may fund a one year M.Sc, followed by a three year studentship to undertake the Ph.D., or a three year studentship to undertake the Ph.D. To find out more about of the studentship and the proposed project please contact either Professor Christian Heath (christian.heath@kcl.ac.uk) or Dr Dirk vom Lehn (dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk). The final deadline for applications is 22nd of February 2019 but we would very much welcome applications before that date.g + |
| 4th Conference of The Schutz Circle 2018 + | “Fake news,” “Alternative Facts,” “Lying press” – slogans like this indicate that something has been set in motion within the information society that might have the potential to re-define the socio-politically established borderlines between true and false, right and wrong. Considering this trend, The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Sociology chooses the subject area of knowledge, nescience and the (new) media as the central topic for its 4th Conference. Seen from a phenomenological point of view, what stands behind the development in question can be described as a shift in the relevance system of the (late/post-)modern subject: less and less knowledge is based on first-hand experience, more and more knowledge is the result of mediation processes and thus depends upon the alleged authority of others. Instead of fostering the Enlightenment’s ideal of using one’s own understanding, mediatization thus seems to expose the societal construction of reality to manipulation and propaganda both of which address the emotional rather than the intellectual aspect of the citizen. Decidedly starting from the perspective of a sociology and phenomenology of the life-world, participants shall address questions on the level of (1) description, (2) analysis, and (3) evaluation: (1) What counts as a “fact” in the new media? How are evidence and social acceptance created, how is knowledge legitimated within a “virtual” community? (2) Is there a special kind of thou-orientation towards the “virtual” other? Is there a special quality to communication via the internet, one that renders internet users more easily deceived (talking of social bots)? (3) Is there a need to secure reality construction against fabrication and de-legitimation in the context of the new media? Is the well-informed citizen still a possible and desirable ideal in face of the information explosion with which humankind is confronted nowadays? Besides the general focus on “Knowledge, Nescience and the (New) Media,” there will be sessions in addition that are principally open to other topics within the Schutzian paradigm. Paper proposals are not necessarily bound to the main topic of the conference. Session proposals are also welcome. Propositions have to be written in English. Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words. To be considered all presentation proposals must include a cover sheet with name, paper title, affiliation, five key words, and full contact information including email. For more information, see our website www.schutzcircle.org. The Ilse Schutz Memorial Prize of $750 will be awarded for the best paper presented by a graduate student or faculty member who has not yet reached the rank of Associate or Full Professor. Please submit full papers until the submission deadline. + |
| 4th Resistance day 2019 + | We are delighted to announce that the 4th edition of ‘Resistance Day’ will take place on the 10th of April 2019 at York St John University. The event is a one-day research seminar comprising data sessions and a keynote speech which will be delivered by Dr Stephen Gibson on the topic of resistance in the (in)famous Milgram ‘Obedience’ experiments. We welcome participants interested in having a data session on any aspect related to ‘resistance’ as an interactional phenomenon. There are five data session slots available and they will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Please email Bogdana Huma (b.huma@yorksj.ac.uk) before the 1st of February 2019 if you are interested in reserving a data session. If you would like to attend the event (without brining data) please get in touch as well, so that we can gauge the number of attendees, as all previous seminars were fully booked. Best wishes, Bogdana & Jack + |
| 4th. Copenhagen Multimodality Day 2018 + | This research seminar invites proposals for paper presentations related to Video ethnography, EMCA, multimodality and interaction analysis. We especially encourage paper presentations that deal with difficult methodological issues and/or presents novel solutions to methodological issues. The invited keynote speaker is Christian Heath, Professor in work, interaction and technology. Kings College London. The title of his presentation is: Institutional form and multimodal interaction: ecologies of participation and engagement. + |
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| 5-year EMCA postdoc at Loughborough, UK 2022-2027 + | Dear all, There’s a 5 year post-doc position in Loughborough’s Centre for Early Mathematical Learning that DARGers might be interested in, working with me on a project at the Centre. The team recently won a £10M grant and is seeking to appoint a number of Research Associates including one who will work on studies using conversation analysis and a range of other qualitative approaches to understanding of young children’s interactions both inside and outside the mathematics classroom. Here’s the link: https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=878825MnYj&WVID=5913100PrZ&LANG=USA Closing date 10/03/2022 … Contact Elizabeth Stokoe (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/elizabeth-stokoe/)if you’d like to ask more! + |
| 5th International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2018 + | We are pleased to announce that the 5th International Conference of Conversation Analysis – ICCA-18 – will be held at Loughborough University, UK, from 11th to 15th July 2018. Plenary speakers will be: * Rebecca Clift – University of Essex, UK * Aug Nishizaka – Chiba University, Japan * Jeff Robinson – Portland State University, US * Marja-Leena Sorjonen – University of Helsinki, Finland * Tanya Stivers – UCLA, US The conference will be preceded by a programme of pre-conference workshops, of the kind that were so popular when offered for the first time at ICCA-14 in UCLA. These workshops will run from the 9th to the 11th July. You will find information about Paper and Panel Submissions, e-Posters, Registration & Accommodation, the Organising and Scientific Committees, Prizes and Awards and much else throughout the site at http://icca2018.org ===Panel calls=== (ordered by submission dates) * Panel call on accountability for intersubjectivity: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA_2018_panel_call_on_accountability_for_intersubjectivity / '''DL: 4th September''' *Panel on non-lexical-vocalizations in interaction: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_non-lexical-vocalizations '''DL: 5th September''' * Panel on teacher questioning: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_teacher_questioning / '''DL: 8th September''' * Panel on interactions with people in crisis: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_interactions_with_people_in_crisis / '''DL: 8th September''' * Panel on mediated interactions: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_Mediated_Interaction / ''DL: 12th September'' * Panel on pain in interaction: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_pain_in_interaction / ''DL:15th September'' * Panel on recruitment and the organization of assistance in interaction: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_recruitment_and_assistance / '''DL: 15th September''' * Panel on experience reference: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_experience_reference / '''DL: none specified''' * Panel on noticings as social actions: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_noticings_as_social_actions / '''DL: 20th September''' * Panel on Institutional Practices in ELT Classroom Interaction: http://emcawiki.net/ICCA2018_panel_on_Institutional_Practices_in_ELT_Classroom_Interaction '''DL: 26 September''' + |
| 5th Resistance Day 2019 + | We are delighted to announce that the 5th edition of ‘Resistance Day’ will take place on the '''11th of September 2019''' at Loughborough University. The event is a one-day research seminar comprising data sessions and a keynote speech which will be delivered by Dr Rein Ove Sikveland. We welcome participants interested in having a data session on any aspect related to ‘resistance’ as an interactional phenomenon. There will be five data session slots which will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Please '''email Jack Joyce (j.joyce@lboro.ac.uk)''' before August 23rd, 2019 if you are interested in reserving a data session. If you would like to attend the event (without brining data) please get in touch as well, so that we can gauge the number of attendees, as all previous seminars were fully booked. Best wishes, Jack & Bogdana + |
| 5th annual CASLC celebratory talk + | The 5th Annual CASLC Celebratory Talk The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) at the University of York is delighted to present a talk by… Professor Ana Cristina Ostermann Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) & CNPq, Brazil Communicating Death over the Phone in Intensive Care Date: Thursday 12th December 2024 Time: 2.00pm-3.30pm (UK time) Place: Zoom. If you’re on the CASLC or CASLC-guest mailing list, you will receive a zoom link via google calendar. If you’re not on our mailing list, you can register by completing this short registration form: https://forms.gle/BHs7tJgefqLkNcoH6. If you’re unable to use the online registration form, please contact: merran.toerien@york.ac.uk. Abstract During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, before vaccines became available, some hospitals were forced to quickly transition to using telephone calls for interactions with patients’ families. This shift included, among other changes, the delivery of death notification – a type of news that had previously been communicated exclusively in person. This talk reports on a research study that emerged within that scenario (Ostermann, Konrad, Goldim, in press). Drawing on a corpus of 528 calls recorded by the doctors themselves between 2020 and 2021 in a hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Brazil, the paper investigates how the communication of death to families of COVID-19 patients happens over the phone. We rely on Conversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson 1974; Sacks 1992) from an interactional history perspective (Beach, Dozier, Gutzmer 2018, Deppermann & Pekarek Doehler 2021; Wagner, Pekarek Doehler & González-Martínez 2018) to analyze how an action, sequential, and longitudinal analysis of naturally-occurring interactions can illuminate our understanding of the communication of death over the phone. While we find support for some of the claims made in the literature, the empirical, emic, and longitudinal interactional approach gives us new insights into the different shapes that the communication of death can take. + |
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| 6 PhD Positions at Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2022 + | About the position: The Faculty of Humanities at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology invites applications for six scientific PhD-positions. The employment will be for a period of three years without required duties, however required duties such as teaching may be considered added to some of the positions depending on the Department’s needs. The successful applicants must commit to completing their PhD studies within the period of employment. The Faculty of Humanities hosts four PhD-programmes aimed towards the scientific PhD-degree: Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Humanities and the Arts, Language and Linguistics, and Historical and Cultural Studies. Applicants must align their application with one of the Faculty’s research groups/networks. You can find the groups included in the announcement on our web site. Applications that are not connected to one of these groups, will not be assessed. Qualification requirements: •Master’s degree with a weighted average grade of B or higher in terms of NTNU’s grading scale for the last two years of their master’s, in accordance with Section 6.1 in NTNU’s PhD-regulations. •Strong academic record from previous studies •The applicant must account for how the project can be related to the relevant research group/network and the activity at the Department. Applicants are encouraged to get in touch with relevant academic staff early in the process. The intended main supervisor must be employed at one of the Faculty’s departments and be part of the relevant research group/network. The application must include confirmation from the intended main supervisor that they are willing to supervise the project. Supervisors must satisfy the requirements for supervising at the PhD-level. Applications that do not include confirmation from the main supervisor will not be assessed. •Strategic considerations will also be an important part of the selection process. In accordance with the Regulations concerning terms and conditions of employment, former PhD research fellows at NTNU are not eligible for the positions regardless of field of study. Candidates who already have an approved doctorate in related fields from other institutions, either nationally or internationally, are also asked not to apply for these positions. We offer: •exciting and stimulating tasks in a strong international academic environment •an open and inclusive work environment with dedicated colleagues •favourable terms in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund •employee benefits Salary and conditions: As a PhD candidate (code 1017) you are normally paid from gross NOK 491 200 per annum before tax, depending on qualifications and seniority. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund. The period of employment is 3-4 years (with up to 25 % teaching duties). Appointment to a PhD position requires that you are admitted to the PhD programme in [subject area] (Link to website, if applicable) within three months of employment, and that you participate in an organized PhD programme during the employment period. -------------------------------- The engagement is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants, and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU. After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work. It is a prerequisite you can be present at and accessible to the institution daily. About the application: The application must contain information about the applicant’s background, necessary language abilities and motivation to complete a PhD-project. The application and project description must be in a Scandinavian language or English, usually in the same language as the intended thesis. Applicants should not fill out an application to the programme. The following attachments must be included: Description of the doctoral project to be carried out during the employment period, using the appropriate template at www.ntnu.edu/hf/phd/project-description •Certificates, including grade transcripts (originals may be requested in the case of an interview) •Confirmation from main supervisor •The applicant must document a high scientific potential through the project description. The project description is a key element in evaluating the applicants. It is also highly important that the project is feasible within the nominal length of study, which is three years full time, with ½ year set aside for the coursework component. The successful applicant must commit to completing a PhD within the period of employment and the available resources. The applicant must therefore show that they will have access to the necessary equipment and infrastructure to complete the project. PhD research fellows at the Faculty of Humanities will receive up to NOK 150 000, - in working capital (driftsmidler) to complete the project. The following applications will not be assessed: •Applications that are not sent electronically through the Jobbnorge portal by the application deadline •Applications that have not used the Faculty’s template for project description or which lack a project description all together •Applications without a confirmation from the main supervisor •Applications that do not include their affiliation with one of the relevant research groups/networks •Applications without certificates/grade transcript from their Master’s degree •Applicants invited for an interview will be asked for references and should bring originals of transcripts and certificates. Please contact senior adviser Gro Lurås (+47 73 59 66 89 or email gro.luras@ntnu.no) for questions about the positions. For academic questions, contact the relevant research group. For more information, see our web site. Application deadline: October 1, 2022 + |
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| 8th EMCA Doctoral Network workshop Newcastle September 2017 + | The 8th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting will be held at Newcastle University. We invite EMCA postgraduate research students to apply! The event is an opportunity to engage with other postgraduates in an informal and supportive environment. At these Network meetings, you can present your analyses, share/discuss ideas-in-progress, undertake specialist training, and get to know your fellow EMCA researchers a little better! We welcome applications from PGR students at any stage. We welcome proposals for data sessions and presentations with any focus. Skills sessions and plenary talks will be related to the theme of Multimodality. Contemporary EMCA research is increasingly getting to grips with how speech is routinely combined with the manipulation of a broad range of semiotic resources (such as embodied actions, mobility, objects) in order to achieve social actions. This workshop will discuss the opportunities and challenges that this provides. Lunch and refreshments will be provided on both days. Information about travel, accommodation options and evening meals will be distributed to confirmed attendees. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer support/bursaries for travel or accommodation. However, if your application is accepted, there will be no attendance fee. To attend: please fill out the application form then email the application form, or any queries, to Chris Leyland: chris.leyland@newcastle.ac.uk Places are limited, so please apply as early as possible. The deadline to apply is August 4th. We will notify applicants of acceptance by August 11th. Please find out more about the EMCA Doctoral Network at: http://emcadoctoralnetwork.wordpress.com and join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/emcadoctoralnetwork/ + |
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| 9th Joint Action Meeting (JAM 9) Budapest, Hungary, July 10-12, 2023 + | Dear friends and colleagues, JAM is back! Having skipped the meeting in 2021 due to the pandemic, it is our great pleasure to now finally invite you to attend the 9th bi-annual Joint Action Meeting (JAM) in Budapest next summer (July 10-12, 2023). As always, JAM aims to bring together cognitive scientists and researchers from related disciplines studying individuals’ ability to act together. Human life is full of joint actions, ranging from a handshake to the performance of a symphony. We are highly skilled at coordinating our actions with those of others to reach common goals, and we rely on this ability throughout our daily lives. What are the cognitive and neural processes underlying this ability? How does joint action develop? How do language and gesture support and emerge from joint action? What are the basic principles needed to build robotic systems that can interact with humans? What differentiates joint action from individual action, both conceptually and in terms of experience? The scientific program will comprise oral presentations and posters addressing these and related questions. '''SUBMISSIONS''' We invite submissions for talks (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion) or posters on joint action. The abstract should be no longer than 200 words. Deadline for submission is February 28th, 2023. The abstract title should clearly define the work discussed. Abstracts reporting empirical studies must contain the specific goals of the study, the methods used, a summary of the results, and a conclusion. For theoretical work, the abstract should contain the specific goals and clear conclusions. Please note that although we do encourage submissions from a broad range of topics and perspectives, we will only be able to accept contributions that directly inform our understanding of joint action. We will do our best to accommodate your preference for talk/poster but given the tight schedule we cannot guarantee that we will be able to accommodate your preference. For more information about the abstract submission, visit http://bit.ly/3WWZfs4 We very much hope to see you in Budapest next summer! Please forward the announcement to anybody who might be interested in attending JAM 9. The JAM organizing team Andrea Jenei, Central European University Gunther Knoblich, Central European University Ivana Konvalinka, Technical University of Denmark Natalie Sebanz, Central European University Cordula Vesper, Aarhus University Anna Zamm, Aarhus University + |
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| A Video Turn in Linguistics? + | We are happy to announce the new conference “ A Video Turn in Linguistics?” The use of video is spreading in all domains of the human and social sciences, and particularly in linguistics and applied linguistics. This « video turn » has several methodological, theoretical, and applied consequences. Methodologically, video allows the researcher to collect data of increasing complexity, in order to document not only the gestural and embodied dimension of spoken language but also the visual dimension of written language, as well as the visual and embodied aspects of technologically mediated communication. Crucially, the use of video raises theoretical issues, inviting to re-think language, action, cognition, culture and social order, by recognizing the fundamental importance of embodiment and more generally of multimodality. The applied consequences are important too, since video offers new ways of communicating, sharing, and circulating scientific results, in particular with people filmed and targeted by video research. Despite a real boom experienced by video these last decades, a lot of theoretical and analytical issues, methodological and technological problems, and questions about the usability and impact of video data remain. Often the potentialities of video remain under-estimated and under-exploited. This conference aims at showcasing and reflecting about the diversity of uses of video in linguistics and neighboring disciplines. We invite scholars to submit a paper contributing to one of the following topical sections: a) On multimodal analysis through the use of video recordings b) On methodological issues concerning the use of video data c) On the applied issues concerning the use of videos for communicating with the public Contributions can be submitted in English, French, German and Italian. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words. Submission deadline is 15/12/2017. For further details, please consult our website: https://vals-asla2018.philhist.unibas.ch Organising Committee vals-asla2018-dslw(at)unibas.ch + |
| A new Swedish EMCA textbook: Multimodal Interaktionsanalys 2020 + | Announcement: A new Swedish EMCA textbook: Multimodal Interaktionsanalys 2020 As we all know, there are by now several very useful textbooks on conversation analysis. However, teachers who would like to start off with the multimodal perspective still have a hard time finding pedagogical texts at appropriate levels of complexity. Our new textbook arose from the practical necessity of efficiently providing students with conceptual and practical tools for doing multimodal analyses of various types of interaction. The Swedish-speaking world is perhaps exceptionally well served by researchers carrying out EMCA video analysis within a wide range of academic subjects. The book’s 27 authors represent not only sociology, psychology, (clinical) linguistics, and teacher training, but also literary studies and computer science. Our book celebrates this diversity through separate chapters that address advanced level students in all of those subjects. Hopefully, the book will inspire teachers in various other languages to likewise endeavor into writing introductions to multimodal research. We would be more than happy to share the lessons learned in the process. Editors: Leelo Keevallik and Mathias Broth * https://www.studentlitteratur.se/kurslitteratur/sprakvetenskap-och-sprakdidaktik/lingvistik/multimodal-interaktionsanalys/#show * https://www.smakprov.se/bok/pocket/multimodal-interaktionsanalys-9789144127521/ + |
| AAA 2020 + | Dear all, We invite papers for a panel for the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), taking place in St. Louis, MO in November 2020. If interested, please submit an abstract (max. 250-words) to Lilit Ghazaryan (ghazaryanl@ucla.edu) by April 15, 2020. Title: Highlighting Language: The interactional focus on code, rather than content. Discussant: John Lucy (UChicago) Abstract: This panel investigates mechanisms through which language becomes salient as a code in ongoing discourse. Research on reflexivity in language has long been a cornerstone of linguistic anthropology (Silverstein 1976; Babcock 1980; Bauman and Briggs 1990). The capacity of discourse to simultaneously function as medium and object of communication lies at the heart of metapragmatic phenomena such as reported speech, translation, deictics, or poetics, and the like (Lucy 1993; Silverstein 1993). These all make pragmatically salient, and therefore “highlight (Goodwin 1994),” different aspects of discourse as their respective objects, in more or less explicit ways. While reflexivity pervades language at all levels, one type of metapragmatic discourse explicitly deals with the code itself (sensu Jakobson 1956). For example, “correcting” someone’s pronunciation or teaching the phoneme of a different language, inevitably highlight the form a linguistic signal takes. In this panel, we are interested in such phenomena, yet we ask specifically: Can we draw attention to the code but without the use of overtly metapragmatic expressions. In other words, how is the linguistic code highlighted without explicitly talking about it? We invite papers exploring the mechanisms that highlight language yet which do not rely on explicit metapragmatic expressions. We are especially interested in strategies such as repairs (Schegloff et al. 1977), recasts (Chouinard and Clark 2003), repetitions (Rossi 2019), replacements (Sidnell and Barnes 2013), and recycling of prior talk (Goodwin 2018), as well as prosody, other aspects of delivery, and nonverbal means, which are likely to play crucial roles. Such strategies for interactional highlighting may certainly occur in talk that also includes overtly metapragmatic discourse. We do not want to disregard the latter, yet we hope to focus on the particular work that is accomplished by the former. While we hope to analyze specifically those practices where the attention is on linguistic form, we recognize that often some aspects of the code is highlighted in order to also achieve some other pragmatic effect—the code is, in fact, rarely the only focus of attention in metalinguistic and metapragmatic acts. Organizers: * Lilit Ghazaryan (UCLA) * Jan David Hauck (LSE) + |
| ACI2021 + | In this summer school, we will bring together the methodological expertise from the University of Groningen, as well as national and international colleagues, providing you with the opportunity to learn about different approaches and methods used within the paradigm of educational interactions. Building on a unique combination of different disciplinary perspectives, this summer school will appeal to students and early career researchers with an interest, and potentially data, in interaction and learning; it will also welcome applicants without any previous training in the subject, who are interested in exploring classroom interaction as a subject for the continuation of their academic career. Learning, inside and outside schools, happens in interaction between children and their teachers, parents, and peers. It takes human interaction to learn to talk, to do math, to collaborate and to learn autonomously. Research on educational interactions has grown tremendously in the past decade. It reveals important insights for educational improvement. This summer school will offer a broad range of methods to capture and analyse classroom interactions. + |
| AGF2026 + | 25. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung / 25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis Theme: Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods Date: 25-Mar-2026 - 27-Mar-2026 Location: Mannheim, Germany Contact Email: agf2026@ids-mannheim.de Meeting URL: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2026/agf-2026 Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics Submission Deadline: 17-Nov-2025 The 25th Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung (Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis) will take place from 25-27 March 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany. In 2026, the conference theme is “Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods”. The conference aims to offer researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds an opportunity to discuss interactional work on technology use in and for social interaction. For this reason, the main language of the conference will be English. We invite contributions that are based on empirical data and examine the situated use of various technologies in social interaction or technology-mediated interactions from a sequential perspective. Further details about the event and an extended Call for Papers can be found on the conference website: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2026/agf-2026 A detailed description of the conference theme with submission guidelines is available here: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/fileadmin/aktuell/kolloquien/2026/AGF_2026/AGF-26_Theme.pdf The deadline for abstract submissions (400 words, excluding references) is 17 November 2025. Abstracts should be sent as a Word or PDF file to agf2026@ids-mannheim.de The organizing committee Florence Oloff, Silke Reineke, and Uwe-A. Küttner + |
| AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research + | '''AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research''' '''CASE 1+3 Studentship (Masters and PhD)''' '''University of Liverpool''' '''Description''' '''Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP)''' The Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool invites applications for this full-time 1+3 studentship funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) via its 2018 Artificial Intelligence (AI) call. The studentship is part of a collaboration with Peak AI (one of three companies to be Global Amazon Web Services Accredited Machine Learning Partners) and the Big Hypotheses Project (one of five large projects funded in response to a UKRI call on New Approaches to Data Science, which is led by the University of Liverpool and also involves UKRI’s Hartree Centre (a UK centre of excellence for supercomputing) and IBM Research). This unique studentship is open to candidates with either a social science or data science background. Candidates will be expected to have or be on track for a 1st or strong 2:1 BA/BSc degree in a relevant social science (e.g., anthropology, geography, politics, psychology, sociology, science and technology studies) discipline or in mathematics, statistics, data science or computer science at undergraduate level. However, the studentship is also open to those who have already completed MA/MSc degrees in a relevant social science discipline, in statistics/mathematics or in data science and who are interested in additional training that will enable them to pursue new trajectories of research in cutting edge AI/Machine Learning research fields. This is possible because the proposed ‘hybrid’ project will offer the successful candidate two six-month placements in high profile AI and Machine Learning projects during which they will analyse those projects sociologically and ethnographically – asking how AI and Machine Learning work actually gets done and what is involved in doing it. Given this, candidates should ideally (a) have some experience/interest in social studies of science and technology (see, e.g., Sormani 2014, Vertesi 2015 and Mackenzie 2017) and (b) have undertaken or be prepared to undertake specialist training in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and/or data science as part of their training. '''The studentship/project/supervision''' This four-year studentship will commence October 2019. The aim of the proposed studentship is to provide a bridge between, on the one hand, work in AI and Machine Learning and, on the other, the social sciences. It will do this through what has been termed (by the sociologist Harold Garfinkel (2002)) a ‘hybrid study’. This hybrid study will involve embedding the successful candidate – a social scientist trained in data science or a data scientist trained in social research – in two AI/Machine Learning work settings and asking them to study those settings by participating in the work conducted there. These embedded studies, as part of which the successful candidate will become a ‘hybrid practitioner’ comfortable in both research worlds, will generate new insights into the practical operations of AI and Machine Learning research for non-AI or Machine Learning audiences and, through that: help deliver better public understandings of these significant but frequently misunderstood contemporary technologies; sharpen understandings of their potential uses in different applied settings; and contribute to developing the effective training that will be needed to bring forward the hybrid researchers of the future, i.e. the growing number of those who will be operating across computer science, social science and arts and humanities domains as a matter of course. All this will be achieved through a focus on the practicalities of the work – on what AI and Machine Learning actually involve as practices. The successful candidate will be registered at the University of Liverpool and will undertake research on AI and Machine Learning from bases in Liverpool, Manchester and Lausanne at different periods in the research. The student will be supervised by Dr Michael Mair (Sociology, University of Liverpool), Dr Phillip Brooker (Sociology, University of Liverpool), Dr Philippe Sormani (STS-Lab, University of Lausanne), Dr Will Dutton (Peak AI, Manchester) and Prof Simon Maskell (Principal Investigator for Big Hypotheses, University of Liverpool). Application process and general information : To apply please submit: *An up-to-date CV including details of two named referees (one of whom should be your most recent academic tutor/supervisor) * A letter of application (not exceeding 2 pages) outlining your interest in, and suitability for, the studentship and how you would anticipate approaching the research *Copies/confirmation of your University qualifications Applications – with ‘UKRI 1+3 AI Award: AI at Work’ in the subject line of the email should be submitted by the 23/11/2018 5pm to: Mrs Leah Dempsey – slsjpgr @ liverpool.ac.uk '''Supervisors''' *Dr Michael Mair *Dr Phillip Brooker *Professor Simon Maskell *Dr Philippe Sormani + |
